It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
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Tea thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate
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You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
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Tea Thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid, thou innocent pretence for bringing the wicked of both sexes together in a morning thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tipping cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate thus, and adore thee.
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As good be out of the world as out of the fashion.
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